Dudley Edmondson is an American writer and photographer specializing primarily in outdoors and nature writing and photography. He currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota.[1] His books include What's That Flower? (DK Press, London, 2013), and The Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places (Adventure Publications, 2006),[2] the latter focusing on African Americans in the outdoors, a subject on which he has spoken widely across the United States and for which a fellowship administered by the Greater Seattle YMCA was named for him.[3][4]
Edmondson was born in Columbus, Ohio, to African American parents who relocated from the South during the Great Migration. He first got interested in birding as a high school senior when a teacher took him and other students on a birding trip, unusual for urban youth of color.[5]
Career
In addition to his books, Edmondson's photographs are widely published in bird encyclopedias and natural history field guides worldwide, including dozens of images in Bird: The Definitive Visual Guide, by Audubon (DK Publishing.)
In 2022, Edmondson appeared in a new PBS series, “America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston". The episode is titled "Minnesota: A Better World."[6]
